CHINA: Potent Hero

"One Brave Chinese. "Chang Tsung-chang, off to the Chinese battlefront,
waves good-bye to 20 wives and concubines, promising to come back
victorious. Anemic Westerners can only admire Chang's courage and verve.

"Ladies whom he began marrying young, when he was a gang coolie, include
Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians and Mongolians. Win or lose,
that's a brave Chinese."

Thus exalted famed Hearst columnist-editor Arthur Brisbane, last week,
when the notorious, cruel, rapacious General Chang Tsung-chang put his
back to the Great Wall of China and prepared for a last stand against
the immensely superior armies of the new Chinese Nationalist
Government,...